On June 8, a memo was sent to “Black Elected Officials, City, State, and Federal” from City Councilman Albert Vann. It warned of the “peril of losing a ‘Voting Rights’ district—the 11th Congressional District—as a result of the well financed candidacy of Council Member David Yassky, a white individual.”
That was one of the Read More
Proposed boundaries for the Crown Heights North historic district.
On Sept. 19, the Landmarks Preservation Commission will be considering the designation of a Crown Heights North historic district. Tucked between Eastern Parkway on the south and Atlantic Avenue on the north, this neighborhood is smack-dab in the middle of Brooklyn’s Caribbean-immigrant enclave. It’s also Read More
In keeping with our ongoing obsession with the up-for-grabs 11th Congressional race, we sent our man John Koblin out into the district to talk to residents about what they hoped for out of their new member of Congress.
Here are a few randomly selected interviews that show, if nothing else, the radically different priorities Read More
This flyer was found in mailboxes in parts of the Crown Heights zip code where Easter bonnets were much more prevalent than peyes.
Our real-estate reporter, Matthew Schuerman, received one:
Trouble is, this flyer landed in a building in the western half of Crown Heights, which is full of African-American and Caribbean-American churchgoers.Well, Read More
Our sister site The Politicker discovers that Bill Batson, an aide to David Paterson and a member of the Prospect/Crown Heights community board, will announce for the 57th Assembly District Sunday, the race for which is shaping up as a test of the community’s feelings towards Atlantic Yards, which would be located in the Read More
Who but Isac would have alerted me to this one: John Sampson, the Brooklyn D.A. challenger, went with a Crown Heights Orthodox supporter, Chanina Sperlin, to the grave of the Grand Rebbe of Lubavitch yesterday to pray for victory.
Will it work? I asked.
“No,” said Isac.
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Think of this as a memoir of a love affair-of the beginning, anyway, of a long, strange, curious, sometimes deluded, sometimes dangerous love affair with the city. A memoir prompted in part by last Sept. 11, and this one.
Prompted more by the fact that I’m just about the only person I know who hasn’t Read More
